Chapter 215: 【122】Huajin Grandmaster_6
"Originally, I was only one step away, unrelated to those little devils. Daoist Tianfu, may I spar with you briefly." Wang Longhu sat down, didn't exchange pleasantries, and directly addressed Daoist Tianfu.
"Cough cough cough!" Tianwu immediately choked and coughed.
As an elder of Wudang, he naturally knew more.
The current era might have fewer people practicing martial arts, but their generation with the celestial character still had prodigies.
For example, his senior brother beside him, Daoist Tianfu, was a modern Huajin Grandmaster.
In their previous generation, like Daoist Xuanzhen, they were all nearly a few decades or even a hundred-year-old modern Grandmasters, living fossils indeed.
Someone with that level of skill would rather not engage, as physical limitations make full-force battles consume life energy, making it impossible to live as long.
Huajin Grandmasters are not immortalized; though they possess unimaginable power, the world has its rules.
Human vitality is not eternal; after age thirty or forty, it either helps to prolong life or boosts extraordinary bravery a few times.
Once vitality is consumed, it is hard to replenish.
So, the ones in Wudang who can truly fight now are all from Daoist Tianwu's generation, and there are only two Huajin Grandmasters left to guard Wudang.
Daoist Tianfu is one of them, also the most gifted and youngest Huajin Grandmaster of the celestial character generation.
Thus, although on the surface they are senior brothers, Daoist Tianwu looks over fifty, while Daoist Tianfu seems like a youth just over thirty.
If he were not sloppy and unkempt, with any tidiness, he could appear three or four years younger.
Now, hearing Wang Longhu wanting to spar with a Huajin Grandmaster, Daoist Tianwu was startled by his courage.
"Reasonable, you have just become a Grandmaster. Spar to test your strength is justified." Daoist Tianfu calmly put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, stood up, and walked outside. Wang Longhu followed closely.
Daoist Tianwu, momentarily unable to react, only trembled incredulously a few seconds later and said, "Grandmaster, is he now a Grandmaster? How long since he learned the Golden Toad Skill."
In the yard, Wang Longhu and Tianfu stood four steps apart, their eyes indifferent, revealing no emotion.
For Huajin Grandmasters like them, a ten-step distance is equivalent to face-to-face.
Even if someone within twenty steps aimed a gun at Wang Longhu, Wang Longhu could break the attacker's throat before they pulled the trigger.
Daoist Tianfu lifted his hands effortlessly, not moving even the sleeves of his robe, seemingly feeble, yet in reality the power was used invisibly.
As soon as he raised his hand, Wang Longhu saw the technique.
Wudang's founding ancestor Zhang Sanfeng created the Tai Chi within Internal Boxing, and as the birthplace of Tai Chi, Wudang has always had the saying that "All Tai Chi comes from Wudang."
Tai Chi emphasizes stillness over movement, softness overcoming hardness, leveraging four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds, delayed yet arriving early, actions as smooth as flowing water, ongoing without interruption, combining hardness and softness, concealed without revealing.
This doesn't mean Tai Chi is a soft fist, powerless in striking. In fact, Tai Chi also has a forceful boxing skill, only hidden away, transformed into a blend of hardness and softness.
Soft like water, hard like iron.
As one of the Three Great Internal Boxing disciplines that cultivates both internally and externally, especially used by a Huajin Grandmaster, Wang Longhu naturally would not underestimate it and directly posed his most proficient Xingyi Boxing stance.
As one of the Three Great Internal Boxing disciplines, Xingyi Boxing also produced Huajin Grandmasters, not weaker than Wudang's Tai Chi.
Wang Longhu had just achieved Huajin, was still unsteady in grasping his power, and having someone like Daoist Tianfu as a sparring partner was simply fortunate.
It was just perfect to discern the distinction between Huajin Grandmasters.
"Daoist, I seek your guidance." Wang Longhu humbly said, bursting forth with strength, disappearing from the original spot almost instantaneously.
Transformed into a swift gust pushing toward Daoist Tianfu, the momentum as fierce as a cannonball.
The ground beneath Wang Longhu's feet instantly sank into a pit, appearing suddenly.
Showing how terrifying the propulsion he released at that moment was.
Bang!
Wang Longhu threw a punch, its edge like a blade, heating the air slightly, making one not doubt that this punch could crush steel.
Daoist Tianfu merely glanced, undaunted, didn't even intend to dodge, lightly clasped his arms and pushed, his back turned, effortlessly sliding around.
Wang Longhu, who had just approached Daoist Tianfu, suddenly found himself sliding past Tianfu, moving to his back.
Wang Longhu was astonished, at this moment, no one's naked eye could see what exactly transpired.
Only he and Tianfu knew, at the instant of contact, Daoist Tianfu grasped his wrist, then deflected and leveraged the force smoothly, tossing Wang Longhu's body aside.
It could be said that Daoist Tianfu used less than thirty percent of his strength, entirely converting Wang Longhu's power and putting it back to use.
This is the essence of Tai Chi, overcoming hardness with softness, leveraging four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.
"Wudang's Tai Chi is indeed remarkable." Wang Longhu sincerely praised.
Then ceased his attacking stance, knowing just from this one move that he was no match for Daoist Tianfu.
One was newly achieving Huajin, the other had wielded Huajin for years, their usage levels of Huajin martial arts were far apart.
Wang Longhu was a newly built hut, while Daoist Tianfu was a high-rise, requiring time to equalize.
For now, relying solely on Daoist Tianfu's Tai Chi move, even if Wang Longhu erupted with full force, he couldn't draw close.
Because his command over Huajin was far inferior to Daoist Tianfu's, further combat would only waste time.
"Your punch's power is remarkable, normal Dark Force martial artists, no matter if trained from a young age, cannot possess such strength."
"I know there are people born with divine strength, able to lift cows and carry horses at fifteen, but such individuals becoming Huajin Grandmasters is incredibly rare."
"Your future is not simple; once you master Huajin and harness your power, even peer Huajin Grandmasters won't be a match." Daoist Tianfu looked at his palm, spoke in amazement.
You could see his palm, which received Wang Longhu's arm, was slightly trembling, even Daoist Tianfu felt his palm was numb.
This indicated how terrifying Wang Longhu's strength was, had it not been for Tai Chi dissipating the force, his bones would surely have broken.